Oscar Wilde Quotes
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
Quotes to Explore
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
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After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. At this convention, they decided that the helm of the Zionist movement has to be a Jewish commonwealth... a Jewish commonwealth!
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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The new pastoral style, which John XXIII intended, has much to do with what he said during his opening speech, when he spoke about the medicine of mercy. Since that time, the theme of mercy has become fundamental not only for the council, but also for the entire pastoral praxis of the postconciliar church.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
